Watercolor Flowers Made Simple : Creative and Fun Floral Designs to Paint

By Alessandra Lanot

This introduction to botanical art teaches readers how to illustrate over 15 lifelike flowers, including show-stopping peonies and delicate poppies. With years of experience teaching artwork to adults, commercial artist Alessandra Lanot brings a knowledgeable, encouraging voice to every step. Beginners will find this workbook fun and approachable, while intermediate artists can discover a new style or medium. Alessandra shares all her tips of the trade, helping readers find the best tools, build core skills and most importantly, enjoy the artistic process. Using her popular floral artwork as a guide, Alessandra walks students through surprisingly easy essential drawing and painting lessons. In each chapter, readers take on an array of individual flowers before building a dazzling arrangement. Drawing instruction ranges from sketching petals at every angle to shaping full bouquets, while watercolor techniques include mixing colors and creating effects with paint layering. Tear-out practice pages make it easy to share the final bouquets or frame them for home d cor. Readers will build the confidence to draw and paint flora directly from their own vases and gardens. These effective, low-stress lessons are the perfect start to an exciting artistic hobby.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1624147038
• ISBN13: 9781624147036
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Page Street Publishing Company
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 9.0"